The first issue of the year is composed entirely by the end of December of the previous year, the first proof is prepared by the publisher Universa Press by mid-January and the issue is printed by the end of January. This issue contains all the abstracts of the Belgian Week of Gastroenterology and needs to be distributed during the Belgian Week of that particular year (in February). The articles will be published on our website by 31 March. This issue is sent out by Universa Press to the subscribers, bookshops and members of the VVGE and SRBGE in the beginning of April.